random thead 2

you can find anything anywhere if you look hard enough you can find it everywhere you look

 

They give a name to what they see. Recognition is not a matter of taste but of identification. Perception is not knowledge but can lead to it. What is not revealing is using a sliding scale of appreciation.

For example we make the statement you are my love and then object that my love hasn't been lovely and this is what gives sense of disproportion. Either make the tree good and it's fruit good or make it bad and not the same as good.

 

What you recognize in that which you identify may not be what I recognize in that thing you identify. I may recognize it as something different from you, depending on my taste, of course.

 

If you have taste we can identify it as taste. It we have a centipede we can identify it as centipede. We may or may not have a taste for centipede or a big shoe collection. As far as recognizing something, everything has a body and everybody has a name.

 

On a base level, we both recognize the centipede in front of us, and we will both identify it as such. However, you may recognize the centipede as something to fear, whereas I might recognize the centipede as something to not fear.

 

Anyway, if the world were just one big country--for lack of a better word--there would be no trade. Would that be a good thing?

 

You don't fear what you recognize, you fear potential to be harmed, an unknown.

 

I don't see how being one big country prohibits trade.

 

Yeah, but sometimes what we recognize is known, and because of what we know about it, we fear it.

 

I guess I didn't state that clearly enough. Sometimes trade between countries is not so fair for one side. If there was only one side, there would be no need to trade. I guess that what I'm getting at is a world in which there is no trade or sale because there would be a recognition that we're all in this together and that the world and our lives is not a business venture in which the more opportunistic among us profit greatly.

 

I call trade between people not countries. Countries do commerce.

 

No again you fear potential. Nothing real can be caused to become unreal and nothing unreal exists. Fear is appropriate in evolutionary terms as startle, not musing over possibilities. What startles is the appearance of something unforeseen and in this instance the fight or flight reflex is sufficient.

Rule of thumb and every other flippin digit, Anxiety, fear, is cause by the misapprehension of what is so. The truth relieves anxiety.

 

Anyone know if they make portable electric saws? Kind of like an electric drill but with a saw at the end. A chainsaw is to big. Im thinking something like an electric carving knife but battery operated. Now that im thinking about it the battery would probly have to be too big.

 

they sure do..

 

one of these? yeah, they work great.

 

I believe i can use one of them.

 

battery operated sawsalll will cut thru lots of shit, they make battery operated circular saws too

 

Very well, then what do you think of the system of commerce that exists between countries today in view of the fact that we're all in this together, and are, in reality, one people?

 

I'm not really talking about the fear of a tiger in the jungle, or the fear of a snake in the grass, both of which may or may not eventuate in physical harm. I'm leaning toward something more akin to the fear of the effects of radiation leaking from tanks in the ground all around the country, and that which leaks into the ocean from the Fukushima incident. Either response--fight or flight--is not possible. What name will we apply to the apprehension caused by having both fight and flight removed from our choices of response? I cannot fight it, and I cannot run from it.

 

It is raining here today